A DISGUSTED mum has accused a hospital parking enforcer of watching her set up her daughter’s wheelchair before putting a £60 ticket on her car.

Gaynor Ptak, 35, says she spent more than 10 minutes setting up the chair for nine-year-old Kayleigh, who has cerebral palsy.

And she told the Record the warden waited until she had taken her daughter into the hospital for an appointment before moving in and ticketing her car.

“It’s outrageous,” Gaynor said. “It’s like the wardens are waiting to catch people out and make as much money as possible.

“They know we’re under pressure to make appointments and they exploit the situation for their own ends. They should show more common sense and compassion.”

Gaynor got the ticket after struggling for more than half an hour to find a parking space at Perth Royal Infirmary.

She had her disabled badge on show but could not find a disabled bay, so she parked in a space for hospital vehicles.

Gaynor regularly has to take Kayleigh to the hospital and describes it as her “second home”.

She said bosses have given her permission to use staff spaces if no others are free and she would have told the warden about her arrangement with the hospital if he had given her the chance.

She says the two times written on her ticket – when the warden first saw her and when he issued the fine – prove he was “watching me unload and prepare Kayleigh’s wheelchair”.

Gaynor faxed an appeal and complaint to Town & City Parking, who run the enforcers at the hospital, after the incident last Wednesday. She has also hand-delivered copies to their HQ.

A spokeswoman for the hospital said bosses were investigating Gaynor’s case. She said they used “parking management services” to help patients get spaces and met the NHS “standard allocation” by keeping five per cent of spaces for disabled badge holders.

She added: “We will be discussing this incident further with the parking management company and we would like to offer our apologies for any upset or inconvenience caused.”